The monarchs are eating all my milkweed.
heykid
13 years ago
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Milkweeds n NO Monarchs
Comments (12)I got milkweed and I got seed pods about to burst, so more milkweed on the way, I guess. I've been smushing those big black and yellow ladybug-shaped beetles because they eat my tropical milkweed faster than the cats can. I've got something folding and rolling the leaves of the willow tree. I don't want to unfold the leaves to see what it is, yet. These blasted red wasps are more numerous this year than I can recall them ever being and they will take a caterpillar real quick. If the little ones can hide successfully, who am I to expose them to certain death?...See Moremonarchs eating something besides milkweed!?
Comments (12)I never really understood honeyvine until i watched the tiny, very insignificant flowers go to seed. Yes, they make the same basic pods like any conventional milkweed, just smaller and on crooked, pipejoint like stems. I had to look it up. This was some 30 years ago, but there it is--listed in the book, "Nebraska Weeds," and clearly a member of the milkweed family. That said, there is not one drop of latex anywhere, throughout this plant. Leave it to an insect to still smell the right phytochemicals, lay her eggs and hatch out larvae that will be just as nourished by it, as any conventional milkweed! I believe it was 8 or 9 years ago, that I saw a Monarch caterpillar feeding on honeyvine. One can just about classify some plants by host-specific bugs that are found on them....See MoreWhat, other than Monarchs, eat milkweed?
Comments (6)Gonna make you guys jealous, but today I brought five little Monarch cats over to a friend's house who lives about 20 miles away. He has milkweed, but no Monarchs. I, on the other hand, have lots. They are here pretty much all year long. If we have a freeze they disappear for a few days, but then they are back. In Florida, from the central part, where I live, to the south we have a permanent population that does not come and go with the migration. The same is true for hummingbirds; most go with the migration to Mexico, but we have some in the South in the winter months and in the spring they seem to come farther north....See MorePlease Help Save the Monarch Butterflies
Comments (30)"Lady Margaret passion vine." OH MY GOODNESS!! I love it. I'm going to look at some for my yard. I have a wooden fence along my driveway that this would look spectacular on, and a few other supported places in my yard where it would be equally amazing. "Carulea are good, but invasive." I've just looked at some info for Passiflora caerulea, and I'm wondering--for both plants--are they easy to grow from seed? Or would I be better off buying plants? Thanks for the suggestions, tim45z10!...See Morebandjzmom
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